From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 2 01:09:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA27351 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 01:09:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phmit.demon.co.uk (phmit.demon.co.uk [194.222.15.209]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA27346 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 01:09:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dom@phmit.demon.co.uk) Received: from voodoo.pandhm.co.uk [10.100.35.12] by phmit.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #1) id 0zl8Ii-00046c-00; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:10:24 +0000 Received: from dom by voodoo.pandhm.co.uk with local (Exim 1.92 #1) id 0zl8Ig-0000Wy-00; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 09:10:22 +0000 To: cjclark@home.com cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS problems... X-Mailer: nmh v0.26 X-Colour: Green Organization: Palmer & Harvey McLane In-reply-to: "Crist J. Clark"'s message of "Tue, 01 Dec 1998 20:28:28 EST" <199812020128.UAA00551@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 09:10:21 +0000 From: Dom Mitchell Message-Id: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1 December 1998, "Crist J. Clark" proclaimed: > Dom Mitchell wrote, > > % grep /home /etc/fstab > > admin:/export/home /home nfs rw,-i,-3,-T 0 0 > [snip] > > It's running on a 100BaseT switched network to a Solaris 2.6 server. > > Should you be using the '-T' flag with the Solaris server? I don't see why not. NFSv3 is supposed to use tcp AFAIK. > > I realise that this isn't enough to go on for solving the problem. What > > other things can I try when the /home mount gets hung again? Can I > > force a crash dump to take a closer look? > > Can you 'umount -f admin:/export/home'? Naw, it just hung saying "server not responding" again. :-( I've managed to cure my problems by switching back to nfsv2 and turning off the new access cache, in the meantime. -- Dom Mitchell -- Palmer & Harvey McLane -- Unix Systems Administrator ``Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.'' -- Henry Spencer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message